Entries Tagged as 'Resiliency'
by Roberta J. Witty | February 4, 2013 | Comments Off
Friday’s Bank of America outage reminded me of an increasingly frequent question we receive on third party liability due to an operating outage. The use of cloud service providers is making this question top-of-mind for many organizations. But it’s not just cloud providers that you need to worry about: it’s all of your third party [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business interruption insurance, Business Resiliency, Cloud Computing, Commercial general liability insurance, compliance, Contingency Planning, contingent business interruption insurance, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Data Protection, data protection insurance, Disaster Recovery, Gartner, Governance, Liability Insurance for Professionals, Operational Risk Management, Property and casualty insurance, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Umbrella (Excess) Liability Insurance
by Roberta J. Witty | November 2, 2012 | Comments Off
I was wondering how insurance companies keep track of all their covered assets and then assess the damage due to catastrophic events such as Superstorm Sandy. Clearly such storms generate tremendous stress on insurance industry operations due to property loss and associated claims submissions. They are overloaded with work in determining coverage and payment associated [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Availability Risk, BCM, BCP, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business interruption insurance, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Management, Emergency Preparedness, Hurricane Sandy, Incident Management, Operational Risk Management, P&C insurance, property damage, property insurance, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Sandy
by Roberta J. Witty | November 1, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the things I take seriously as a part of my job is making it easy for Gartner clients to get access to our research in a timely manner. So here is the list of Gartner BCM Blog posts related to Cyclone/Hurricane Sandy. I’ll compile a list every day so that you can easily [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event Technology Tags: Allen Weiner, Andrea Dimaio, Arnold Chase, Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, Belinda Wilson, Bill Gassman, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Resiliency, Cloud Computing, Colin Mcenroe, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Craig Roth, crisis communications, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Donna Scott, Emergency Management, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, EMNS, French Caldwell, Hurricane Sandy, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Jack Santos, Jay Heiser, Jim Duggan, John Morency, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Personal preparedness, RaaS, Recovery as a Service, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Roberta Witty, Sandy, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, virtual machines, Virtualization, VM, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | September 4, 2012 | 3 Comments
It’s September. Kids are back to school and we adults have an internal clock driving us to start something new. BCM professionals can take advantage of this quest by leveraging the annual U.S. National Preparedness Month – Presidential Proclamation — National Preparedness Month, 2012. If you haven’t done so already, schedule an event at work [...]
Category: Advisory BCM Process Event ITScore for BCM Standards/Frameworks Technology Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Cloud service providers, Cloud storage providers, compliance, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, Homeland Security, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Succession Planning, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | April 23, 2012 | Comments Off
The April/2012 Continuity Insights Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona was a great mix of foundational and advanced topics in business continuity management (BCM). PS-Prep even had its own track! I couldn’t be at all sessions, so this post is about the ones I attended – it might give you some insight as to what our clients [...]
Category: Event Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, compliance, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, records management, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | March 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
It took some time, but we published four new notes regarding the emergency/mass notification market. Magic Quadrant for U.S. Emergency/Mass Notification Services Published: 8 March 2012 ID:G00217610 Analyst(s): Roberta J. Witty | John Girard | Jeff Vining | Catherine H. Goldstein The emergency/mass notification services market continues to grow, and supports more than 50 vendors [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Recovery Plans, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, Terrorism, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | September 28, 2011 | 5 Comments
On Tuesday September 20, 2011, I attended my local CT ACP chapter’s annual tabletop exercise. Hosted at Northeast Utilities, the ACP management team in conjunction with NU’s BCM team, conducted a great two hour exercise that was filled with lots of changing conditions, misinformation, and even an Elvis impersonator! Also in attendance were an EMNS [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | September 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Anniversaries of major events – personal and public – trigger much reflection on what has changed since the event, and 9/11 is no different. I went back to my experience in the months following 9/11 to find nuggets of information about which to write regarding how 9/11 changed the ability of organizations to respond and [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, compliance, Contingency Planning, Continuity of Operations, COOP, Crisis Management, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Emergency Notification, Emergency Preparedness, Governance, H1N1, Homeland Security, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, swine flu, Terrorism, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | September 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Nice explanations provided for “Specific” and “credible” in the body: http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/us-again-under-threat U.S again under threat Published 9 September 2011 New York City and the District of Columbia respond to “specific, credible but unconfirmed” intelligence of an impending attack; information obtained indicates a vehicle-borne bomb; NYPD deploys boats, armored vehicles and a 1,000-member counter-terror force As [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Resiliency, Homeland Security, Operational Risk Management, Recovery Planning, Resiliency, Risk Assessment, Supply Chain Risk Management, Terrorism, Workforce Continuity
by Roberta J. Witty | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Ensuring your staff is prepared and safe before, during and after a disaster goes a long way in ensuring workforce resilience – in other words, that your workforce will be ready and able to come to the aid of the organization during a crisis event. To that end, a new web resource – Get Tech [...]
Category: Advisory Tags: Availability Risk, Backup and Recovery, banking, BCM, BCP, BIA, Business Continuity Management, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, IT Disaster Recovery, Mass Notification, Operational Risk Management, Pandemic Planning, records management, Resiliency, Roberta Witty, social media, Supply Chain Risk Management, Workforce Continuity
